Rushmi moves into second round

Top seed Rushmi Chakravarthy of India moves into the second round of the Reliance ITF Women Circuit Tennis tournament.

Reported by Indo-Asian News Service

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Bangalore:
Top seed Rushmi Chakravarthy of India trounced Korea's Sujinkim 6-3, 6-0 to move into the second round of the Reliance ITF Women Circuit Tennis tournament here today.
Elena Vesnina of Russia ousted second seed Natalia Dziamidzenka of Bylorussia 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, while Diana Juljaio of Indonesia beat Liza Pereira of India 6-1, 6-3 in other matches of the day.
Po-Kuen Lam of Hong Kong overcame a stiff resistance from Ryoko Watanabe of Japan to register a 6-1, 3-6, 6-0 win for a place in the second round.
Arthi Venkatraman of India outplayed compatriot Iciri Rai 6-1, 6-4, while Sai Jayalakshmi (India) quelled the challenge of Sai Swapna Ramakrishna (India) 6-3, 6-4.
Other Indians in the fray - Sonal Phadke, Samrita Sekhar and Sheetal Gautham - lost their respective matches to crash out of the tournament.
In the doubles category, Indian pair of Perumal and Thukkaiandi beat compatriots Ashlesha Lokhande and Varsha Shivashankar 6-4, 6-3.
Other Results of the first round matches: